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The article focuses on the analysis of the likelihood of escalation of ethnic and national conflicts to the level of armed conflict. Two basic causes of the escalation of conflicts are assessed: 1. the state's use of political and economic discrimination practices against members of ethnic and national minorities (part III), and 2. the minorities' drive to increase their independence and scope of...